List of most-subscribed YouTube channels

The Indian music video channel T-Series[1] is the most-subscribed channel on YouTube, with more than 99 million subscribers as of May 2019[2]

This article lists the fifty most-subscribed channels on the video platform YouTube.[2] The ability to subscribe to users was introduced in October 2005,[3] and the website began publishing a list of its "most subscribed Members" in April 2006.[4] An early archive of the list dates to May 2006, at which time Smosh, with fewer than three thousand subscribers, occupied the number-one position.[5] The most-subscribed channel as of May 2019 is T-Series, which has accumulated more than 99 million subscribers since 2006.

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Most-subscribed channels

The following table lists the fifty most-subscribed channels on YouTube, with each total rounded down to the nearest million subscribers, as well as the network, primary language, and content category of each channel. Automatically-generated channels that lack their own videos (such as Music and News) and channels that have been made effectively obsolete as a result of the transferral of their content (such as JustinBieberVEVO and RihannaVEVO)[note 1] are excluded. As of May 2019[update], twenty-eight of the fifty channels primarily produce content in English.

PewDiePie vs T-Series

In mid-2018, the subscriber count of the Indian music video channel T-Series rapidly approached that of Swedish web comedian and Let's Player PewDiePie, who at the time was the most-subscribed user on YouTube.[168][169] As a response, PewDiePie fans and other YouTubers have shown their support for PewDiePie, while T-Series fans and other YouTubers have shown support for T-Series, in the PewDiePie vs T-Series competition. During the competition, both channels have been gaining a large amount of subscribers at a rapid rate. The two channels have surpassed each other in subscriber count on a number of occasions in February, March, and April 2019.[146][147][148][150]

^T-Series surpassed PewDiePie in subscriber count on numerous occasions, each lasting fewer than 24 hours, from February to late March 2019.[146][147][148] The first incident to last the length of a day began on March 27 and ended on April 1.[149][150]